Brave Rewards Card Waitlist Passes 150,000 Signups
The Brave Rewards Card waitlist passed 150,000 signups on 22 September, up from 126,000 a week earlier and from the 80,000 reported in late August. The card itself has not launched, and the numbers describe interest rather than availability.
What has changed since the waitlist opened is the pitch. The signup page now sets out four ways the card is meant to earn: on every purchase, while browsing, and from an account balance, alongside a claim of no hidden fees.
The country condition sits on the balance feature alone
Three of those four are presented without qualification. Earning from a balance carries a footnote saying eligibility depends on the country the user is in. Brave has published neither a country list nor the mechanism behind that earning, so the asterisk is currently the only signal of where the feature is expected to work and where it is not. A card that pays on purchases everywhere but pays on balances in some markets is two different products depending on the passport, and that split is visible before anything else about the card is.
"No hidden fees" is not a fee table
The cost of a crypto card shows up in places a marketing line does not reach: the FX markup applied at conversion, ATM charges, top-up fees on the funding leg, and the spread between the rate quoted and the rate settled. None of those are published for this card. The claim rules out surprise charges on top of a schedule that does not exist yet, which is not the same as being cheap to run.
The reward side has the same gap. "Eligible everyday purchases" is the phrase doing the work in both of the BAT account's posts, and eligible is where merchant category exclusions live on every card that uses the word. No rate, no cap and no exclusion list has been stated.
Rewards paid in BAT are priced twice
A reward denominated in BAT is fixed in tokens, not in currency. Its value is set once when it is paid and again when it is spent or converted, so the same reward rate produces different outcomes depending on the gap between those two moments. Cards that pay in USDC or in account currency collapse that gap; a BAT reward keeps it open for as long as the balance is held.
The signup form points to a country-by-country rollout
The page says data collected through the form is retained for up to 60 days after the card launches in the user's country. That wording treats a staggered launch as the baseline: markets open separately, and a waitlist entry is tied to whichever one applies. A single global launch date is not what the page is describing.
Four things are still missing, and they are the same four as in August: who issues the card, which countries it reaches, what the reward rate and caps are, and when it ships. Until at least the issuer and the first markets are named, the waitlist total is a demand figure and nothing about the card can be compared with a live product.
Sources: Basic Attention Token on the waitlist total, Brave Rewards Card waitlist.
